Hello Jeff,
My class and I were able to take a brief look at your journals and one of the things that caught my eye was the terming of cyclic storms around antarctica. At this point in time I was able to bring up a model on weather underground of antarctica for my class and it clearly showed each low pressure system. It seams the storms down there are very strong with the model forecasting pressures below 970 millibars for each center. My classes and I would like to know if cyclic in this case means reoccuring storms at the same time every few days a low pressure center will pass through a certain point or cyclic in terms that there is always some storm system out there that will pass through a relative area in which you are traveling. As someone who has studied a lot of meteorology and weather I know that weather systems can be somewhat hard to predict. Are these storm tracks more predictable than say a mid latitude cyclone or hurricane?
Mr. Garippa
Gloversville Earth Science